Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 1, sentence 87
Very few persons are aware that there has perished, or is rapidly perishing, among the Red Indians of North America, far more poetry than was ever written by all the white inhabitants and that this native verse is often of a very high order.
Who acts: few persons, white inhabitants, native verse · What happens: be, perish, write · To what, where: more poetry
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (few persons, white inhabitants, native verse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 few | advmod |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 persons | amod |
| 3 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 aware | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 aware | cop |
| 5 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 perished | mark |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 perished | expl |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 perished | aux |
| 9 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 aware | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perishing | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 perishing | cc |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 perishing | aux |
| 13 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 14 perishing | advmod |
| 14 | perishing | perish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 aware | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Indians | punct |
| 16 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 Indians | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Indians | det |
| 18 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Indians | compound |
| 19 | Indians | Indian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 perishing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 America | case |
| 21 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 America | compound |
| 22 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Indians | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 poetry | punct |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 more | advmod |
| 25 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 poetry | amod |
| 26 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perishing | parataxis |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 30 written | mark |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 written | aux:pass |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 30 written | advmod |
| 30 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 poetry | acl |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 inhabitants | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 inhabitants | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 inhabitants | det |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 inhabitants | amod |
| 35 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 written | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 order | cc |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 order | mark |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 verse | det |
| 39 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 verse | amod |
| 40 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 order | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 order | cop |
| 42 | often | often | ADV | _ | 47 order | advmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 order | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 order | det |
| 45 | very | very | ADV | _ | 46 high | advmod |
| 46 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 order | amod |
| 47 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 inhabitants | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | few persons | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perish | present · perfect | few persons not said here | there | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | perish | present · progressive | few persons not said here | among the Red Indians of North America; more poetry parataxis; rapidly property | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | write | past · passive | all white inhabitants and a high order | more poetry not said here | ever | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | is | present | this native verse | of a high order; often property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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